QuickBooks Online vs. SAP Business One

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QuickBooks Online
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
QuickBooks Online is a SaaS version of the QuickBooks product. It contains all of the features found in the local version. Higher-priced plans include greater automation, payment management, inventory and time tracking, and analytics features.
$38
per month
SAP Business One
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
$99
per month
Pricing
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Editions & Modules
Simple Start
$38
per month
Essentials
$75
per month
Plus
$115
per month
Advanced
$275
per month
Limited
$99.00
per month
Starter
$110.00
per month
Pro
$132.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Considered Both Products
QuickBooks Online
Chose QuickBooks Online
It is a platform that we consider to be mid-range. Where we are below cost and functionality relative to the more robust players like a SAP Business One, but still powerful enough for a medium or large size operation. In addition to being one of the few global solutions that …
SAP Business One
Chose SAP Business One
As a consultant, SAP Business One has a strong set of core features that will perform well for a multitude of businesses. It is a mature product with lots of documentation and available training online to answer questions and assist users. It also has multitudes of proven …
Chose SAP Business One
SAP business one provided a more complete solution since all modules are included in their package. Other ERP providers charged extra for each module that was implemented. SAP was more economical than other providers.
Features
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.4
81 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Business One
10.0
10 Ratings
33% above category average
Pay calculation7.572 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.033 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.067 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.046 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.3
71 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP Business One
9.5
37 Ratings
22% above category average
API for custom integration8.757 Ratings9.535 Ratings
Plug-ins8.058 Ratings9.535 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
9.7
112 Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Business One
9.3
41 Ratings
13% above category average
Single sign-on capability9.684 Ratings9.133 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.7106 Ratings9.541 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.2
136 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Business One
7.3
42 Ratings
1% above category average
Dashboards8.7128 Ratings5.737 Ratings
Standard reports8.3132 Ratings8.042 Ratings
Custom reports7.6120 Ratings8.338 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.6
147 Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Business One
5.8
43 Ratings
28% below category average
Accounts payable9.2125 Ratings9.743 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.4135 Ratings9.742 Ratings
Cash management8.9123 Ratings00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation9.2141 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense management8.8125 Ratings00 Ratings
Time tracking6.957 Ratings00 Ratings
Fixed asset management8.355 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency support7.024 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-division support9.345 Ratings00 Ratings
Regulations compliance9.341 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic tax filing9.468 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service portal8.869 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.318 Ratings7.727 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.837 Ratings9.128 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting8.931 Ratings00 Ratings
Localizations8.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.476 Ratings9.135 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting8.327 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting7.940 Ratings9.533 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework8.426 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.652 Ratings9.138 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
7.6
49 Ratings
3% above category average
SAP Business One
8.5
42 Ratings
7% above category average
Inventory tracking8.046 Ratings9.342 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.023 Ratings7.029 Ratings
Location management8.323 Ratings9.539 Ratings
Manufacturing module7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.4
90 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP Business One
6.2
40 Ratings
24% below category average
Pricing8.056 Ratings8.039 Ratings
Order entry8.054 Ratings8.740 Ratings
Credit card processing8.666 Ratings2.023 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.370 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Order Orchestration8.022 Ratings9.231 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.9
36 Ratings
8% below category average
Billing Management00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.128 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.633 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.0
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
Project Costing00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Cost Capture00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Capital Project Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.9
16 Ratings
13% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.7
15 Ratings
3% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.1
17 Ratings
16% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings8.213 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.7
9 Ratings
16% above category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.5
22 Ratings
3% below category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings6.312 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings4.917 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings2.014 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.1
20 Ratings
19% below category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings2.018 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings2.014 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings4.016 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings5.016 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.5
25 Ratings
5% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.423 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings8.225 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.519 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.9
16 Ratings
22% above category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings4.613 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
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QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Small Businesses
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QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
Score 8.9 out of 10
Zoho One
Zoho One
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 9.0 out of 10
Infor VISUAL
Infor VISUAL
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(165 ratings)
8.7
(48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.9
(24 ratings)
4.6
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(80 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Availability
2.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(68 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.0
(6 ratings)
2.8
(24 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.3
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
1.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
QuickBooks OnlineSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
Intuit
I appreciate the ability to auto-generate invoices for recurring transactions, which saves time, as well as the option to set up auto-generated transactions. The report option is super helpful when reviewing information, as you can click to view the details in the report without having to go back and forth.
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SAP
SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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Pros
Intuit
  • Workflows for accounts payable invoice review are terrific.
  • Bill payment allows you to pay vendors online via ACH or check without having to write a physical check, which reduces admin time.
  • The cloud based login lends well to a remote or hybrid work environment for staff.
  • QuickBooks Online allows you to pre-configure vendors' general ledger expense accounts. This helps with general ledger coding accuracy and consistency.
  • QuickBooks Online integrates with Rippling HRIS, Coast, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, etc., which lends well to an efficient month-end closing and reduced administrative time.
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SAP
  • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
  • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
  • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
  • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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Cons
Intuit
  • The upsells have gotten worse over time and are on every screen in the most awkward positions. I don't need a constant reminder to upgrade, especially on a very old account that's paid thousands over the years.
  • The interface has never been especially intuitive, but I was an old Quicken user and it was somewhat familiar. Over time, it's gotten worse, and in the last 2 years, the program seems to move things more often than I would expect.
  • The software constantly adds features that I don't want and want to turn off, but the interface is so difficult to use that I find myself skipping it. Imagine seeing a message that the system recognized invoices that hadn't been paid so it prepared reminder notices for you that can be sent at the click of a button. Who thinks using canned reminders that you've never seen is a good thing?
  • A lot of functionality seems to derive from connecting your bank accounts to QBO. I don't want Intuit to have an always-on connection to any bank accounts, even checking.
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SAP
  • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
  • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
  • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
Intuit
It like the product 'right out of the box' and I trust Intuit will continually improve it over the years based on my experience with their desktop products. The large providers of Apps makes customizing the entire package relatively easy and seamless for a wide variety of business types.
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SAP
As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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Usability
Intuit
I had very little trouble setting up the program and migrating from our old accounting system. The daily usage is also very intuitive and easy. Anytime we run into minor trouble with the program, there are always tons of help available on YouTube, so we don't even look up the online manual anymore.
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SAP
I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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Reliability and Availability
Intuit
We have rarely had outages in the last 10 years. I can only recall 2 times in the last 10 years where we were not able to access our client files.
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SAP
The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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Performance
Intuit
Everything process has its bugs lately with the new interface. Nothing has worked smoothly since this all began last month.
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SAP
SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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Support Rating
Intuit
In my experience, most representatives keep me on the phone for hours, literally, for a single issue and then usually cannot resolve it satisfactorily. I have 10 open cases that need resolution and, in my experience, there has been NO follow-up communication on any of them.
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SAP
I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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In-Person Training
Intuit
No answers on this topic
SAP
The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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Online Training
Intuit
No answers on this topic
SAP
Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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Implementation Rating
Intuit
The person in charge of QB needs to be very accurate with record keeping and is recommended to stay on top of tasks. The biggest issue we have is reconciliation, and those issues occur only when too much time has occurred between reconciliations
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SAP
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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Alternatives Considered
Intuit
As a freelance bookkeeper, the Desktop version of QuickBooks Online doesn't allow for ease of access from any device. Having to be on a computer with the software downloaded creates additional work to gain access to all required filings etc. Also, I personally find the linking functionality on the Online version to be much more streamlined and user friendly.
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SAP
SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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Scalability
Intuit
As we have grown along our professional path, we have also expanded our use of QB. The scalability is easy and features seem to be waiting for you until you need them. We have increased profits by over 10x from our first year in business to the current and have yet to find a reason to look elsewhere
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SAP
For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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Return on Investment
Intuit
  • QuickBooks has given us a useful portal by which to get an overview of our financials.
  • QuickBooks has given us a relatively easy way to send out invoices quickly and efficiently.
  • Due to the customization limitations on QuickBooks, we've had to get creative in third-party implementations to better represent our brand and to track financials.
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SAP
  • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
  • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
  • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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ScreenShots

QuickBooks Online Screenshots

Screenshot of the accounting and bank transactions interfaceScreenshot of an overview of the accounting inventoryScreenshot of book marksScreenshot of the business tax overviewScreenshot of the customer hubScreenshot of the dashboard